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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The sum of £lO 15s Od has -been collected in New Plymouth towards the funds of the movement initiated by Mrs. Godley to provide cups for competition amongst the Senior Cadets. A few more lists have yet to come in. The High School Old Boys' Association will hold an annual reunion and dinner on breakingup day, on Friday, December 13. The committee has decided to present a cup io the school as a trophy for annual competion at the school sports. It is rumoured that more prosecutions under the Licensing Act for sending, taking, and receiving liquor in a proclaimed area, will be proceeded with shortly. Senior-Sergeant Haddrell visited Waitara on Tuesday and Wednesday, eays the Mail. The Taranaki County Council has accepted the tender of 6. Kendall, for 70 chains of formation and metalling on the King Eoad, at £3 4s Od per chain. The Council has endorsed the action of Cr. McAllum in arranging with L. B. Hart for the supply of boulders at the Omata Hill, at 5s per yard. The gale on Tuesday and the heavy sea running strewed the local ■ ■beaches with an immense quantity of drift wood, some of it being logs of exceptional size. Yesterday a number of people were employed in carting the wood for fuel purposes. Some of the logs were so heavy that they had to be cut before the'v could be removed.

At a meeting of the Taranaki County Council yesterday the new by-laws were confirmed, after some amendment to that portion of them relating to heavy traffic. For traction engines under 8 tons in weight an annual license fee of £25. with £5 for each trailer attached thereto. In the cases of engines over S tons the fee will be £4O and £5 for each trailer,

Some big pieces of wood were brought down the Waitara River by the flood, and on Tuesday night a big heap was held up at the bridge on account of pieces first catching in lines stretched out by the bridge contractors to keep the punte used hy them in place. One heavv log bumped against the middle cylinder of the old bridge, and gave it a'severe shake.—Mail,

The dolls in the doll dressing competition at the Central School Carnival were judged by Misses Fitzherbert and Milk, and prizes have been awarded as follows: Fitzroy, Class 1., Clarice Linn; Class I]., Rosa Gush; special prize, Appi Skipper. West End, Class 1., Marv Coleman; Class 11.. Edna Mouat. Bell Block, Class I.—Myrtle Holmes; Class 11., Nora Andrews.

David M. Crozier was charged in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning with having been found drunk'in Egmont street, and further that he had previously been convicted on a similar charge within six months. Accused, who made no appearance, had been bailed out on Tuesday night for £l. His Worship imposed a fine of £l, with the option of five days' imprisonment with hard.labor. A _ representative raf (the Stratford Evening Post interviewed an officer of the Public Works Department this week, regarding the rumoured dismissal of men on the Stratford-'Te Koura railway, and was informed that one hundred, aiid not three hundred, men had. so far been dismissed. He could not say, however, how many more men would be given notice, as this depended on how the money already voted would last. The question was simply one of keeping within the limits of the expenditure authorised. Many of the men who had lost their jobs had signed on with the Roads Department, a number had been engaged by the Eltham County (Council, and others had obtained work on farms throughout the district. There was, in fact, plenty of work available. ALL ARE UNITED Ir: saying that for all stomach troubles there is no remedy like Dr. Sheldon's Digestive Tabules. Price Is Gd and 2s CdObtainable everywhere.

The Wairoa paper reports that building is brisk in that progressive borough. Both the butter-fat competition and the casein and butter-fat combined competition at the Stratford Show yesterday, were won by Mr. 11. D. Harkness with 290.2 points in the first and 17.77 points in the second, Mrs. W. Henry being second in both competitions, her scores being 202.9 and 14.00 respectively. The Terawhiti estate, near Wellington, for many years farmed by the late James McMenamin, was bought yesterday bv Mr. W. S. Wheeler, of Wellington, for £30,800. The property .consists of 6595 acres of sheep raising and pastoral land, with homestead and farm buildings, 000(1 sheep, 2240 ftunbs and 34 head of cattle. ,

An interesting ease was heard in Taumarunui the other day, in a milk case, in which the question was bow soon after calving the milk of a cow is fit for human consumption. A dairy expert stated that one of the best tests was to drop a little of the milk' into boiling water. If the milk curdles it is still unfit for use, and vice versa.

On the result of the United States election a number of freak bets .were made. A fat man, attired in kneebreeches, rode a boy's velocipede to the White House, shouting, "I'm glad WilsoM won." He had wagered that he would perform this feat if the Democratic candidate was successful. Another man was shopped by a policeman while attempting to roll a peanut up the maim avenue at White House with the aid of 'a crow-bar.

It is stated on good authority that when the Defence Amendment Act, 1912, which has passed through both Houses of Parliament, comes into operation, all those persons who have failed to comply with the provisions of the Defence ■Act, 1909, as regards liability to register (section 51) or who have refused or failed to take the oath of allegiance (section 50), or who fail to render the personal service required, will be proceeded against according to law.

', 111 the course of the next few months the British Navy will be in possession of the largest and most powerful waterplane in the world. The new machine, which is in .'in advanced state of construction, is the outcome of experiments extending over many months. It will be fitted with two Gnome engines, each of 140-h.p., and there will be seating accommodation for five or six persons, including the pilot. It is intended that the machine shall bo able to alight on and rise from both land and water.

The performance of "The Geisha" at Btratfsri last night was a phenomenal success, the house being packed to suffocation, and many .people being unable to obtain admission. -The opera itself was most warmly received,' and the various star features were vociferously 'applauded. At the end of the performance three hearty cheers were spontaneously given for the company. The takings amounted to over £BO. The opera will be played for the last time in the Theatre Royal, New Plymouth, to-mor-row night.

The first band of workers met at the Coronation Hall last night to get ready for the forthcoming Spring Show in connection with the Horticultural Society. With this fine hall at their command, and a full schedule, with the promise' of several exhibits and not a few entries, the fixture this year to be held on Thursday, sth December, should be a great success. The children of the town are being asked to enter their particular events, and it is to be hoped they will do what they can to make the Show a success. All entries close with the secretary on Tuesday next, at Brougham street.

, The picture taken by the local Egmont Film Company of the Central School Carnival last Thursday will be shown to-night at the Empire' Theatre and the Theatre Royal. The picture is a very fine production, and outside of its local interest should prove a splendid a elver-/ tisement for the progressive Egmont Film Company. It will interest our readers to know that this company also have in hand a film of Mt. Egmont' taken during the depth of winter, and another of the breakwater and wharf, including some magnificent rough-sea-scapes taken during the heavy gales a few weeks ago. The first picture "of Mt. Egmont. al*o Pukekura Park and the Sea-side Picnic has already been accepted by one of the leading British film agencies, and Mr. Saunders has received advice that they will be pleased to receive and handle any or all of the company's future pictures. This means that the local pictures will receive world-wide screening. "This emigration business is not worth twopence to' New Zealand; at any rate that is my impression," remarked Mr. C. Hanes, when conversing with a Gisborne Herald reporter regarding his trip Home. "You will find if you look at nearly boats that comes out from Home that it has its berthing in the steerage accommodation fully occupied. About 500 come out bv every boat, or practically 1000 a month, and this 'country cannot take 1000 immigrants a montli. I think they come out here with assisted passages, and go through New Zealand, then over to Australia. Tf you notice the list of departures and arrivals von will observe that it is recorded that 14,000 people arrived during a certain period and 13.000 departed. New Zealand, to my mind, is like a small sieve. The immigrants come through the country, and Australia gets the benefit." Mr. Hanes said that of the emigrants who came out in the Rimutaka, the boat he travelled in, about 50 per cent, -were probably all right, but many of the rest seemed undesirable immigrants as far »s lie could gather. A large number were not the right class of men. They were not agriculturalists, but town dwellers, and the country did not want them. Mr. Hanes did not think there was sufficient discretion exercised in the selection of the emigrants. "What seems to dazzle some of these people," explained the Gisborneite, "is that they see colonials go Home and have moneV to spend and enjoying themselves. They do not see the other side, that, these colonials have put in 20 or 30 years' solid graft before going Home, and they have only to come out here and pick up money. They see such an immense amount of money spent .in London by people from h)\ quarters of the globe, that I think that has a lot to do with the present discontent." MAINLY ABOUT STHTS.

Good suits! The very best suits! That is, Melbourne suits. 'Suits that are famous from coast to const. Suits that are cut out scientifically by cutters who are masters of their craft. Master craftsmen who command and got princely salaries—salaries that the average country custom tailor can never hope to realise. The Melbourne's high-grade ready-for-service suits always 'embody the latest improvements and refinements in suit building—constantly reflecting the latest inspirations of the highest tailoring genius engaged in the gradc ready-to-wear clothing. The suit that is always the. latest model is the Melbourne. Melbourne '-uiits leave nothing to chance. We know. The Melbourne's name and standing make it necessary we should know. Just to show our words are not mere empty boasting, you are invited to come and see these suits at any hour of oui business day, and we shall deem it a pi a sure to show you every one of our latcso twenty models in all the latest shades of worsteds. and not even suggest ilia' you should buy. All we ask is thai you should come and look at 'em. The prices of the very latest model suits an no mere n heretofore, viz., 49/6 to 63/-.

By ii penis;! I of the report of Mr. Newton King's hide sale, which appears in another column, we notice that all classes of produce are selling exceedingly •well. There appears to he an excellent market for butehers'i hides and skins, hides, in particular, selling at advanced rates. Calfskins at Is per pound should be a sound return for the farmer.

Snakes are unusualy plentiful in Sydney this season. One that had evidently .been- brought to the city with a load of firewood was killed near the central railway station last week. Mrs. Neat, a resident of Bathurst, had a bad fright a couple of days ago. Entering a bedroom in which her two young children had been put to si pep. she found the reptile —a brown one—by their bedside, and pulling them out of the wny rushed to a neighbor's house for assistance. The neighbor returning with her, found tho snake still there, and despatched it. A very pathetic ease is reported from Huntly. A little boy named Redshaw, aged six years, was crossing the railway line, when he was knocked down by a Waggon, and both his wrists were' so injured that his arms had to be amputated at the elbow. As yet the little fellow does not know how seriously he is maimed, and believes fondly that new hands will grow upon tho stumps. Mr. James Elliott (secretary of the Huntly Chamber of Commerce)'and Mr. Frederick Harris (clerk of the Huntly Town Board) have taken the case in hand, and are applying to the various schools in the Dominion for subscriptions to buy him artificial limbs.

A newspaper war has been commenced at Timaru. The morning paper is, as in almost every district in the Dominion, the settler's paper—the paper that reaches the right people at the right time. But the Timaru evening paper has a grievance, and in this we confess that it has our sympathy. The morning journal lias.- it is reported, taken contracts from the Postal Department for the delivery of country mails. This, it is contended, places the evening paper at a disadvantage. We do not think j.t in the public interest that the State services should be utilised in such a manner that even a suspicion of unfairness may be created in the minds of a section of the community. The (nail services are supported by all, and should be for the benefit of. all", irrespective of creed or color. —Wairarapa Age.

The war in the Balkans has cut off the supplies of otto of roses, on which the manufacturers of high-class perfumes so largely depend. l Prices have already risen, and should the war be prolonged the crisis which has threatened for some time will he reached. Otto of roses, though 'used in minute quantities, forms tin; main ingredient of numerous perfumes, notably all the rose perfumes, and to a smaller extent of violet, '•bouquets." and opopanax scents. Bulgaria is practically the world's only source of genuine otto of roses. The roses are grown largely by peasants in the valleys at the foot of the Balkan Mountains, the distilled oil .finding an outlet through Constantinople. Efforts to get the same results from roses grown in France, Germany and South Australia have failed. While the war clouds were gathering merchants in the East hurried all available supplies out of the troubled area. Buyers in London, Paris and New York took up all they could deal with even at almost prohibitive prices. Five hundred ounces at Cos an ounce-rthe present price—was by no means an uncommon purchase.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 164, 28 November 1912, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 164, 28 November 1912, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 164, 28 November 1912, Page 4

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